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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Alexander Korda). To save a remaining few aristocratic necks from Robespierre's guillotine, Producer Korda rounds up Sir Percy Blakeney's old crowd of counter-revolutionists, sends them out after Robespierre's own head. Famous Scarlet Pimpernel was well-schooled Actor Leslie Howard. The new one is Actor Barry Barnes, who is very British, often squeaky, and leads the cast in overacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

This effort to save five shillings ($1.25) blew up around His Majesty's Government last week a whirlwind of Labor charges that they have secretly recognized the Spanish Rightist Government. Alba, one of the very bluest-blooded grandees of Spain and one of the wealthiest under King Alfonso XIII, announced in regard to the affair: "It was a plot of the Reds, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Five Shillings | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Ennemie (Eden Productions), like The Ghost Goes West and Topper, makes spooks into amiable comedians. Without the sparkle and ingenuity of its predecessors, it is nevertheless a great show of trick photography. Its three ghosts all died for love of the same woman. Forgathered in a French mansion to save her daughter from marrying the wrong man, they find that humans walking back & forth through them give them the tickles. Out in the garden, where there is less traffic, they sit down for a cigaret. Two ghosts light up, offer the same match to the other one. "Non, non!" protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda, Mei-Mei, to serve as Su Lin's companion, promptly planned a third expedition to save Mei-Mei from loneliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pandas Galore | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Beneath its rear end a keel furrows 16 inches deep in the ocean floor, feeds a cable over a wheel into the trench. The churning wheel and sea's action quickly refill the furrow. Submarine plows can bury 15 miles of cable a day, may be able to save cable companies $500,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Submarine Plow | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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